{"id":4475,"date":"2014-01-04T03:06:50","date_gmt":"2014-01-04T03:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/2014\/01\/04\/rain-rain-go-away\/"},"modified":"2014-01-04T03:06:50","modified_gmt":"2014-01-04T03:06:50","slug":"rain-rain-go-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/2014\/01\/04\/rain-rain-go-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Rain, Rain, Go Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/rutilusincendia.tumblr.com\/post\/68431689895\/rain-rain-go-away\">rutilusincendia<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/6b7acfcca23aa9fff90d2b177787d6ed\/tumblr_inline_muc87yo52s1s6qn7x.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Her smile twitched just the slightest. Names and identities, right. She had to try and remember what name she had been using for the past while, needing to make a split second decision on if it was safe to use the same alias or pick a new one. There was never really any guarantee that the stranger wouldn\u2019t connect the dots.<\/p>\n<p>The somewhat short pause was covered as she pulled on the seatbelt. Pretending to be unable to multi-task was something she had picked up over the last few months.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Izumi would be the name, pleasure to meet you,&rdquo; a split second decision to use a name she hadn\u2019t used in a long time, coupled with a smile that hopefully seemed friendly enough. &ldquo;Ah, there is an apartment complex a little ways from here. That\u2019s where I\u2019m headed, if you don\u2019t mind.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/31.media.tumblr.com\/c3fd1d30b0d16a9aac096e4466f9602b\/tumblr_inline_myth8t1BIW1rms2iz.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Not at all, Izumi-san. Really, it&rsquo;s my pleasure to be of assistance. Dreadful business, being caught in the rain.&quot;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hakuba was speaking in circles, but he hadn&rsquo;t exactly prepared for this meeting, or the decidedly\u00a0<em>off<\/em> feeling that it had about it&hellip; Not that he could really place what was strange; it just was.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, once seat belts were securely fastened, he pulled away from the curb and into the rain, driving down the street at a reasonable speed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&quot;So, ah&hellip;&rdquo; \u00a0he struggled for pleasant small chat topics to cover the silence. &ldquo;Which school do you attend?&rdquo; This was typically a safe question to ask; if she were willing to give the information, it would enable him to get a ballpark age range for her. If not, he&rsquo;d know not to ask any further personal questions at all.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>rutilusincendia: Her smile twitched just the slightest. Names and identities, right. She had to try and remember what name she had been using for the past while, needing to make a split second decision on if it was safe to use the same alias or pick a new one. There was never really any guarantee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[76,75,3531],"class_list":["post-4475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ic","tag-rp","tag-rutilusincendia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}